Carl Sagan is my personal hero, because Cosmos changed my entire life. I went from a know-nothing half-assed kid to a science-loving motivated kid in a matter of days. The Drake Equation keeps my hopes alive that somewhere out there is life, and that we will eventually find it.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
